Is AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB good enough for mining?

[The Enoeht]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post on this great forum. I have been lurking for a while and learning. I have decided to make my mining rig.

As you can imagine buying the best mining GPUs is almost impossible. They are all sold out, however I was lucky enough to

find "AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB", and according to mininghwcomparisson can do 30 Mh/s. What do you guys think?

Also if I plan to get multiple cards of this one, how should I know what motherboard to get?

Thank you.

[snowyNNN]

That´s a great card and gives nice hashes when mining for many different coins.
It uses quite a bit electricity though.


For other hardware I´d go and find a ``full recipe`` so you can get right ram and cpu for a mother board, if you are unfamiliar with building a computer.

[Bare]

Very decent card with good overall speeds and of course is power hungry as hell, so not a good choice if you don't have cheaper electricity cost,
speaking of mining ETH, it has 4GB of vram which means when DAG size reaches 4GB some time in 2018(considering ETH doesn't go PoS by then) it won't be able to mine ETH...keep that in mind, but there's ZEC and other coins so...there's that.

[The Enoeht]

Thank you guys for the information.

[Zionatin]

I looked online at different cards. That one you talking about is a good one. People buy many of them and have them all connected so you have a good card. You must try it and let us know how it goes.

Very decent card with good overall speeds and of course is power hungry as hell, so not a good choice if you don't have cheaper electricity cost,
speaking of mining ETH, it has 4GB of vram which means when DAG size reaches 4GB some time in 2018(considering ETH doesn't go PoS by then) it won't be able to mine ETH...keep that in mind, but there's ZEC and other coins so...there's that.

Eth might go POS ?

[QuintLeo]

R9 290 at this time is a solidly profitable mining card for ETH - and it can do other coins as well but ETH seems to be it's best profitability coin for now.

 You'll want to dig up modded BIOS for them from "TheStilt", if they are reference-design cards (all of the blower-model R9 290 I have ever seen were reference design), to undervolt them and turn off some of the non-mining related parts of the card for better efficiency, MUCH cooler operation, and the ability to overclock them without thermal limiting issues.

[The Enoeht]

Thank you guys for the valuable information, much appreciated.

How about ASUS GeForce GTX1060 ?

PCI Express® 3.0
6 GB GDDR5
1620 MHz
192-bit

R9 290 at this time is a solidly profitable mining card for ETH - and it can do other coins as well but ETH seems to be it's best profitability coin for now.

 

How can I tell what coins a card can mine?

Thank you.